LandForm

1. Platform, Price Company
• Platforms -- PC with Windows 95(or later)/Windows NT(3.51 or 4.0)
• Price -- $$$$
• Company -- Rapid Imaging Software
  1318 RidgeCrest Place SE
  Albuquerque, NM 87108
  (505) 265-7020
  http://www.landform.com
2. Applications

LandForm is a general purpose 3D Geographic modeler with image overlay capabilities. It displays topographic map data as 3D surfaces and allows to overlay satellite and aerial imagery on top of the surface.
3. Examples/Samples

There are descriptions of several projects using LandForm along with a discussion of how the tool was used for the project.
• Exploring Mars http://www.landform.com/pages/exploring-mars.htm - Terrain data from the Viking Orbiter.
• Terrain Modeling http://www.landform.com/pages/modeling-the-terrain.htm - Modeling the terrain around Hoover Dam.
• Overlaying Images http://www.landform.com/pages/overlaying-images.htm - Overlaying images from an Aeronautical chart onto data.
• High Resolution http://www.landform.com/pages/high-resolution.htm - Imagery for an engineering model.
• Combininghttp://www.landform.com/pages/combining.htm - Put Satellite image data together with elevation data from a file.
• VRML Examples generated by LandForm from different 3D terrain data http://www.landform.com/pages/vrml.htm
4. Web Resources

Satellite Imagery and High Resolution DEM data
• Spot Satellite http://www.spot.com/
• Microsoft TerraServer http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp
• Image Scanshttp://www.imagescans.com/mainindex.html
• Intermap Technologies http://www.intermap.ca
• Atlantis Scientific Inc.http://www.atlsci.com/

Source for Aeronautical and Nautical charts
• MapTech http://www.maptech.com/

Sources for USGS data
• Web GLIS http://edc.usgs.gov/webglis
• GISData http://gisdata.usgs.gov/

Other Resources
• National Elevation Dataset http://edcnts12.cr.usgs.gov/ned/
• A Listing of Digital Elevation Data http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/ded.html
• The GeoVRML Working Group http://www.ai.sri.com/geovrml/